http://www.gregpalast.com/massacre-of-the-buffalo-soldiers


Basically, they targeted predominantly black areas with a scheme to get some (thousands) of the votes from being counted.

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"Here’s how the scheme worked: The RNC mailed these voters letters in envelopes marked, “Do not forward”, to be returned to the sender. These letters were mailed to servicemen and women, some stationed overseas, to their US home addresses. The letters then returned to the Bush-Cheney campaign as “undeliverable.” The lists of soldiers of “undeliverable” letters were transmitted from state headquarters, in this case Florida, to the RNC in Washington. The party could then challenge the voters’ registration and thereby prevent their absentee ballots being counted. One target list was comprised exclusively of voters registered at the Jacksonville, Florida, Naval Air Station. Jacksonville is third largest naval installation in the US, best known as home of the Blue Angels fighting squandron.Here’s how the scheme worked: The RNC mailed these voters letters in envelopes marked, “Do not forward”, to be returned to the sender. These letters were mailed to servicemen and women, some stationed overseas, to their US home addresses. The letters then returned to the Bush-Cheney campaign as “undeliverable.” The lists of soldiers of “undeliverable” letters were transmitted from state headquarters, in this case Florida, to the RNC in Washington. The party could then challenge the voters’ registration and thereby prevent their absentee ballots being counted. One target list was comprised exclusively of voters registered at the Jacksonville, Florida, Naval Air Station. Jacksonville is third largest naval installation in the US, best known as home of the Blue Angels fighting squandron. ... The BBC obtained several dozen confidential emails sent by the Republican’s national Research Director and Deputy Communications chief, Tim Griffin to GOP Florida campaign chairman Brett Doster and other party leaders. Attached were spreadsheets marked, “Caging.xls.” Each of these contained several hundred to a few thousand voters and their addresses. "

People say all the time that Democrats do the same thing, and it might be true, but you never here of it. So either it's going unreported, or maybe they just aren't as pervasive about it. This is a pretty screwed up and racist thing though for the Republicans to do, and if true, it really doesn't help their image.

6/19/2006 1:23:06 AM

out of the last 6 years there is not much of anything republicans have done that i really helped there "image", IMO

and hear* not here

6/19/2006 3:22:41 AM

anyone who thinks we have a democracy is insane

6/19/2006 3:42:01 AM

usa number 1 baby

6/19/2006 3:45:36 AM

Are you sure you are not mixing up the parties? It doesn't strke me as wise for the Republicans to be disenfranchising young white zenophobic males, such as occupy the navy. Military individuals tend to be somewhat religious and tend to come from the south, eager to vote red.

Now, if you told me the Republicans were disenfranchising criminals or black people then that would make sense.

6/19/2006 8:43:52 AM

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"People say all the time that Democrats do the same thing, and it might be true, but you never here of it. "

What? Of course they do the same thing and perhaps if you read something other than liberal blogs you might have heard of it.

http://www.google.com/search?q=democrat+voter+fraud is probably a good place to start if it really interests you that much.

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"Are you sure you are not mixing up the parties? It doesn't strke me as wise for the Republicans to be disenfranchising young white zenophobic males, such as occupy the navy. Military individuals tend to be somewhat religious and tend to come from the south, eager to vote red. Now, if you told me the Republicans were disenfranchising criminals or black people then that would make sense."

There were 1,800+ people on the list and like 50 were in the Navy. There were almost all African-American. I know it may seem shocking but its being blown out of proportion to sound much worse than it really is. Apparently the list is of registered voters that the RNC did not think were valid (double-ups, deceased, etc). If it were exactly the fraud tactic talked about in the original post it wouldn't shock me though.

[Edited on June 19, 2006 at 8:50 AM. Reason : .]

6/19/2006 8:45:24 AM

I'm just wondering if this thread helps ameliorate the sting of losing by 3,012,497 votes... 

6/19/2006 9:44:05 AM

maybe if enough people read this guy's blog, bush will be impeached and kerry will win...or maybe gore

6/19/2006 10:24:46 AM

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"zenophobic males, such as occupy the navy"

WTF are you talking about?

6/19/2006 10:38:53 AM

*yawn*

6/19/2006 11:12:42 AM

hey i heard gore still wants to do another florida recount

you know, since he is still sore about losing the election a mere 6 years ago

6/19/2006 11:39:13 AM

^^^ Sorry, I exagerated for effect. If I offended anyone in the Navy I appologize.

6/19/2006 12:56:33 PM

HAY GUYS TREETWISTA MADE ANOTHER FUNNY ABOUT KERRY AND GORE

GG DUDE!!

6/19/2006 1:15:59 PM

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"LoneSnark: Are you sure you are not mixing up the parties? It doesn't strke me as wise for the Republicans to be disenfranchising young white zenophobic males, such as occupy the navy. Military individuals tend to be somewhat religious and tend to come from the south, eager to vote red. Now, if you told me the Republicans were disenfranchising criminals or black people then that would make sense."

Quote :

"The BBC obtained several dozen confidential emails sent by the Republican’s national Research Director and Deputy Communications chief, Tim Griffin to GOP Florida campaign chairman Brett Doster and other party leaders. Attached were spreadsheets marked, “Caging.xls.” Each of these contained several hundred to a few thousand voters and their addresses. A check of the demographics of the addresses on the “caging lists,” as the GOP leaders called them indicated that most were in African-American majority zip codes."

http://www.gregpalast.com/massacre-of-the-buffalo-soldiers

I'm not really sure if any of this is true or not. If it is true, I'll say right now that it doesn't surprise me.

6/19/2006 2:32:18 PM

HEY JWB LIKES TO BLAME BUSH FOR EVERYTHING

GG DUDE!

6/19/2006 3:30:44 PM

example please

6/19/2006 3:59:05 PM

well right here you blame bush for the iraq war without even mentioning his name

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"jwb9984 All American 4905 Posts user info edit post yep john kerry took us to war that asshole "

oh you're good...you're good

6/19/2006 4:13:00 PM

BAHAHAHA

6/19/2006 4:14:00 PM

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"I'm just wondering if this thread helps ameliorate the sting of losing by 3,012,497 votes... "

They're still numb from losing an election by -543,000 votes.

6/19/2006 9:01:29 PM

yeah...just shut up....repubs didnt steal any elections...

6/19/2006 9:06:16 PM

^^ Really? I thought Bush had more votes in Florida?

6/19/2006 9:47:52 PM

Huh?

Gore had 500,000 or so MORE votes than Bush nationally in 2000, but Bush had 3 million or so MORE votes than Kerry in 2004.

So, Gore's margin of loss in 2000 was a negative 500,000.

The winning/losing though didn't matter nationally, since it was the individual states that decided the election, which is what I was trying to subtly point out.

6/19/2006 10:06:01 PM

^ Really? I thought Bush had more votes in Florida?

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"The final (and disputed) official Florida count gave the victory to Bush by 537 votes"

6/19/2006 11:59:44 PM

moron is unaware of the electoral college...he thinks we have a popular vote election

So, you see, he thinks Gore won because he's a moron.

6/20/2006 9:29:14 PM

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" Breaking: Shirley Ward Arrested August 25, 2006 President of the Tennessee Federation of Republican Women, Shirley Ward, has been arrested on voter fraud charges. Ward, best known as one of the major contributors to the GOP grassroots group TeamGOP, is the mother of TeamGOP founder Jeff Ward. Both Wards are active in politics in Tipton Co. Update: It appears the race in question was a Tipton County Commission race, although futher details are sketchy at this point. Ward did surrender herself to authorities, which according to the Nashville Post, would be the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation in this case."

http://blogs.knoxnews.com/knx/silence/archives/2006/08/breaking_news_t_19.shtml

8/25/2006 3:33:43 PM